Action formation with janwai in Cantonese Chinese conversation

• Main Author: Liesenfeld, Andreas Maria
• Other Authors: K. K. Luke
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Pragmatics; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Computational linguistics; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Syntax
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102660; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47757
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis describes action formation and ascription featuring the Cantonese Chinese discourse marker janwai ("because") in naturally-occurring Cantonese talk-in-interaction. Conceived as a conversation analytic exploratory data analysis, the study examines the use of this utterance as pa...